"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep," Obama cautioned. Young and charismatic but with little experience on the national level, Obama smashed through racial barriers and easily defeated ...

Those of us that live in the world of reality are not shock by this, but Liberals living in their Utopia Bubble are devastated when Facts meets Reality!!Obamacare Train Wreck The president held Democrats hands and told them not to worry. But that's also what he, Bill Clinton and other horse whisperers said in 2010. The "moderates" who made the Nancy Pelosi majority went on to be wiped out in the largest turnover of House seats since 1938!! Each and every day Obamacare continue to be discredited!!Than we have another Obama Historic Record: Over 47 Million on Food Stamps for the past 13 consecutive Months, Work Force participation lowest since 1978!! Since January 2009 to October 2013, more than 11 million people have dropped out of the labor force  from 80,507,000 to Octobers 91,541,000!!

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Today is the day we honor those who gave all for America!! Chimpy leftist phags, give your all today by jumping off the nearest train trestle and down into the quarry below! We will thank you next year on this date!!

On another note, can you leftist phags feel your stretched-out sphinc-ters puckering?? Ochimpocare is SOOOO pathetic that its a GIVEN it will be repealed/scaled back very soon. Truly, the greatest government boondoggle in the history of America......

State Obamacare exchanges enroll 3 pct of target so far

Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:08pm EST

(Reuters)- President Barack Obama's healthcare reform has reached only about 3 percent of its enrollment target for 2014 in 12 U.S. states where new online health insurance marketplaces are mostly working smoothly, a report released on Monday said.

States with functioning exchanges have signed up 49,100 people compared with the 1.4 million people expected to be enrolled for 2014, according to the report by healthcare research and consultancy firm Avalere Health.

With enrollment in the federal HealthCare.gov website serving 36 states stalled by technical failures, the weak sign-ups for functioning insurance exchanges could be due to the administration's difficulty to promote the program as a success, Avalere said.

The government is due to release national enrollment figures for the month of October this week. Open enrollment ends March 31, 2014.

Supporters of Obamacare and health insurers fear that scant participation in the private insurance exchanges will prevent them from becoming a sustainable new individual market, including the right mix of young and healthy members to offset coverage for older, sick people.

Before the Oct. 1 launch of enrollment, policy experts had expected that Americans would sign up gradually to the new Obamacare plans, consistent with the roll out of other healthcare programs like Medicare's prescription drug program for the elderly in 2006, according to Avalere President Dan Mendelson.

The turnout in states with functioning marketplaces has so far been weak rather than gradual, according to Mendelson. This could mean HealthCare.gov 's problems, which have prompted high-level oversight hearings led by Republican lawmakers, could be weighing on all states, he said

"The technical problems of the website and enrollment generally are causing the administration to go much slower on the positive messaging that is necessary to build enthusiasm for the law and that's an issue," Mendelson said.

Avalere looked at 11 of the 14 states and Washington D.C. that elected to build their own exchanges for individual insurance.

Some of the states included in the tally have also had technology problems along the way. Hawaii did not launch online enrollment until the middle of October. Vermont's governor has asked to extend current individual policies into March 2014 to give residents more time to shop because of issues on its state's site. Colorado and Minnesota have also experienced problems with their web sites.

Avalere's numbers are based on its own enrollment model and the Congressional Budget Office's 2014 forecast that 7 million people will enroll in the exchanges nationwide.

The 49,100 enrollments also include Medicaid sign-ups in Hawaii and Rhode Island, which did not provide a break-out, Avalere said. It based its numbers on public and press reports for the above mentioned states as well as Connecticut, the District of Colombia, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, New York and Washington.(Reporting by Caroline Humer; editing by Andrew Hay)

Rawstory is a great link. They never let anyone who isn't a liberal post on their comment boards. Once they find one who isn't one of their own, they ban them. That is how the liberals work. I don't see that happening on any of the conservative links, we love to let idiots aka liberals post on those sites. Rawstory is a bias, racist, bigoted site.

Monday, 11 Nov 2013 01:19 PMA requirement of President Barack Obamas health-care law that group insurance plans cover contraceptives was ordered blocked by a federal appeals court, the first ban on enforcement of the mandate.

Fridays decision increases the probability that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue to resolve conflicting appeals court rulings.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago returned two cases to trial courts with instructions to enter preliminary injunctions blocking enforcement of the requirement in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In a 2-1 decision, the three-judge panel reversed the lower-court decisions in lawsuits brought by Catholic families and their closely held corporations.

These cases -- two among many currently pending in courts around the country -- raise important questions about whether business owners and their closely held corporations may assert a religious objection to the contraception mandate and whether forcing them to provide this coverage substantially burdens their religious-exercise rights, U.S. Circuit Judge Diane Sykes wrote in the majority opinion.

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